דער מיסטעריעזער בחור אין רבינס שטיבלThe Mysterious Young Man In the Rebbe’s Shtiebel
מיט זײַנע לאַנגע פּאות, סאַמעטענעם הוט און לאַנגער בעקעשע זעט ער אויס ווי אַ רביש קינד אָבער ער הייסט פּיטער און רעדט נישט קיין ייִדיש.
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Culture A Brief Guide To Martin Scorsese’s Jewish And ‘Jew-ish’ Films
Martin Scorsese, the Little Italy-raised, second-generation son of Italian-American garment workers, was born into the piping-hot melting pot he spent a lifetime committing to film. His awareness of America, while observed from a particular — often extralegal — vantage point, is supreme even among his impressive cohort of auteurs: Spielberg, Coppola and De Palma. Naturally,…
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Yiddish „שלום־עליכם־צענטער‟ זאַמלט געלט אויף נייטיקן דאַך־רעמאָנטSholem Aleichem Center Raising Money for Essential Roof Renovation
די הוצאָות פֿון בויען אַ נײַעם דאַך וואָלטן באַנקראָטירט די אָרגאַניזאַציע און געבראַכט אַ סוף צו אירע אָנגעזעענע אַקטיוויטעטן אויף ייִדיש.
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Life The Secret, Forgotten Pleasure Of Writing A Daily Thank You Note
I was looking for a better way to mark time. To keep my days from blurring together, which seemed to be devolving into a dull, endless loop of unfinished to-dos. So last Thanksgiving, inspired by Gina Hamadey’s Thank You Year, I decided to write one thank you note every day for a year — first…
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The Schmooze Drake’s Blingy Toronto Restaurant, Pick 6ix, Shut Down
First, Drake got booed off the stageat a Los Angeles festival by concertgoers who apparently expected Frank Ocean to perform instead. Now comes word that Drizzy’s blingy Toronto restaurant, Pick 6ix, was shut down this week for nonpayment of rent. “Millionaire rapper forgets how to write rent check,” blared an Eater headline. “Technically speaking, Drake…
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News While Police Investigate Stabbing in Hasidic Enclave, Rumors Abound About ‘Inside Job’
Read this article in Yiddish here. MONSEY, N.Y. — Last week, the phrase on the lips of many Jews in Rockland County, New York, was “hate crime.” Just before 6 a.m. on Wednesday, a man jumped out of a car on a quiet residential street in the heart of Monsey, the suburban Hasidic haven, and…
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Opinion Can Britain’s Chief Rabbi Convince Voters Not To Support Anti-Semitic Labour?
Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis op-ed, published in the Times of London on Monday, reads as if it were written by a man who didn’t want to write the piece but believed he had no choice. “Convention dictates that the Chief Rabbi stays well away from party politics,” Mirvis writes, but “challenging racism” — specifically,…
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Music The Spiritual Beauty Of Jimi Hendrix’s Star-Spangled Banner
I was a fifteen-year-old, not-very-hip teenager during the Woodstock Music & Art Fair, which I did not attend. I did watch the movie, though, soon afterwards, and when the fiftieth anniversary rolled around this August, I watched it again. This time, as the High Holy Days approached, I was particularly struck by the festival’s final…
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Food Thanksgiving Then And Now: How Jews Transformed Turkey For Their New World
What can a Jewish cookbook from 1946 tell us about the 21st-century Jewish-American experience? Liza Schoenfein, the Forward’s senior food writer, and Jane Ziegelman, a culinary historian, took our signature collection of Yiddish recipes off the shelf and found a direct line from the balaboostas of yore to the kitchens of today. The Original Crowd-Sourced…
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Food ‘Lekka Burger’, Using 900-Year Old Recipes For Plant-Based Meat, Opens In Tribeca
One’s a philanthropist on a mission. The other’s a veggie-loving star chef. Now, these Jewish women are teaming to open a burger chain whose “plant-powered” menu is designed to outdo animal products. Lekka Burger, which opened its doors in Tribeca last week, is the brainchild of Andrea Kerzner, the South African-born activist and daughter of…
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